26 October 2018
2018- n° 287In September 2018, the turnover in large-scale food retailing bounced back (+0.8%) Turnover in large-scale food retailing - September 2018
In September 2018, the turnover in large-scale food retailing bounced back after a decrease in August (+0.8% after −2.0%). Sales recovered in food products (+1.0% after −2.3%). They kept decreasing in non-food products (−0.3% after −1.7%) and was virtually stable in automotive fuel (+0.1% after +0.7%).
Turnover bounced back sharply in supermarkets (+2.0% after −3.2%) and more moderately in hypermarkets (+0.4% after −1.4%).
In September 2018, the turnover in large-scale food retailing bounced back after a decrease in August (+0.8% after −2.0%). Sales recovered in food products (+1.0% after −2.3%). They kept decreasing in non-food products (−0.3% after −1.7%) and was virtually stable in automotive fuel (+0.1% after +0.7%).
Turnover bounced back sharply in supermarkets (+2.0% after −3.2%) and more moderately in hypermarkets (+0.4% after −1.4%).
Slight increase over the last three months
Over the last three months (July to September), the turnover in large-scale food retailing increased slightly compared to the previous three months (+0.5%). Over that period, sales rose in food products (+0.3%). They decreased in non-food products (−0.6%) and grew in automotive fuel (+1.6%).
Turnover decreased in supermarkets (−0.9%) whereas it increased in hypermarkets (+0.8%).
Growth of 2.7% over a year
The turnover of the past three months in large-scale food retailing rose by 2.7% compared to the same period one year earlier. Sales in food products increased (+1.6%) whereas they decreased in non-food products (−3.5%). Sales of automotive fuel surged (+16.4%). Year on year, sales increased more in supermarkets (+3.5%) than in hypermarkets (+2.4%).
graphiqueGraph1 – Turnover in large-scale food retailing by type of retail stores
- Source: INSEE - Monthly survey of large-scale food retail activities (Emagsa)
graphiqueGraph2 – Turnover in super. and hypermarkets by type of products
- Source: INSEE - Monthly survey of large-scale food retail activities (Emagsa)
graphiqueGraph3 – Turnover in supermarkets by type of products
- Source: INSEE - Monthly survey of large-scale food retail activities (Emagsa)
graphiqueGraph4 – Turnover in hypermarkets by type of products
- Source: INSEE - Monthly survey of large-scale food retail activities (EMAGSA)
tableauTable1 – Turnover in large-scale food retailing
| Variation en % | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kind of stores or kind of products | Sept./Aug. | Aug./July | July/June | q-o-q (1) | y-o-y (2) |
| Turnover (*) | 0.8 | –2.0 | 0.8 | 0.5 | 2.7 |
| including | |||||
| Sales of food products(**) | 1.0 | –2.3 | 1.1 | 0.3 | 1.6 |
| Sales of non-food products(**) | –0.3 | –1.7 | 1.9 | –0.6 | –3.5 |
| Sales of automotive fuel(**) | 0.1 | 0.7 | –0.9 | 1.6 | 16.4 |
| including | |||||
| Supermarkets(***) | 2.0 | –3.2 | 0.8 | –0.9 | 3.5 |
| Hypermarkets(***) | 0.4 | –1.4 | 0.8 | 0.8 | 2.4 |
- (1) Quarter-on-quarter: last three months / previous three months (2) Year-on-year: last three months / same three months of previous year
- (*): including sales not in stores
- (**): sold in supermarkets or hypermarkets
- (***): excluding sales not in stores
- Source: INSEE - Monthly survey of large-scale food retailing activities (Emagsa)
tableauTable2 – Revisions of variations
| Aug./ July | July/ June | June/ May | Q2 2018/ Q1 2018 | 2017/ 2016 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Large-scale food retailing | –0.04 | –0.04 | 0.02 | 0.01 | 0.00 |
| raw serie | –0.03 | –0.05 | 0.02 | 0.01 | 0.00 |
| SA-WDA parameters | –0.01 | 0.01 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
- How to read it: Within large scale food retailing, the SA-WDA variation between July and August is revised by -0.04 points: -0.03 points are due to the raw series' revision and -0.01 points to the new calculation of the SA-WDA
- Source: INSEE - Monthly survey of large-scale food retailing activities (Emagsa)
Revisions
The variation in the turnover of large-scale food-retailing for July 2018 has been revised downwards by 0.1 points to −2.0% instead of −1.9% previously published.
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